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2004). She (2004) also defines another factor which is childhood experiences; “… someone who grows up in a dwelling that has both a living room and family room [does not mean that he or she] will choose a similar arrangement in his or her maturity” (p. 162) but the type of activities that are performed in the living room are affected by childhood experiences. Another personal factor that might be influential on the use of the living room is life cycle. According to their life cycle, dwellers live alone, with roommates, with their partners or with their children. It could be assumed that the living arrangements also depend on the age of the dwellers. Weisner and Weibel (1981) have examined the relationship between quality of family home environments and life styles. They reveal that the life style of the family (either conventional or non conventional type of families) affects four characteristics of the home environment as “disorder/ functional; complexity/ decorative complexity; warm/ child oriented; number and variety of books” (p. 454). Horwitz and Tognoli (1982) pay attention to men and women living alone rather than men and women living with their partners or families, and reveals that women tend to continue their past experiences in their present houses. Saegert (1985) states that the housing needs to differ for families with or without children and for married or single women. Rechavi (2004) examines the dwellers living alone and with their partners, and observes that the dwellers living with their partners have partnership objects in their living rooms. The dwellers living alone have more personal objects in the living room than the participants living with their partners. 26
Another important factor that affects the use and the interior design of the living room is gender. Horwitz and Tognoli (1982) reveal that the experiences of housing of man and woman living alone are missing in the previous studies. Their study focuses on men and women living alone rather than men and women living with their families. Their results show that; Women experienced less disruption in the transition between parental home and the establishing of their own living space. Greater continuity for women might have been affected by their early socialization to homemaking, enabling them more easily to construct a comfortable living environment for themselves (Horwitz & Tognoli, 1982, p. 340). This study shows the importance of considering individuals rather than families in the experience of housing. In another study Tognoli (1979) claims that there is an outside/ inside dichotomy in the American culture when considering the relationship of men and women with their home. Men are not concerned about interior of the house as long as wife was alive and men felt comfortable while socializing outside in public spaces rather than socializing in home. Tognoli (1980) also shows the gender differences in feelings and activities in different rooms of the house. Generally, women perform more activities than men, and “for the living room, women are more concerned with room size and feeling cramped” (Tognoli, 1980, p. 833). He also states that living rooms could be named as women because women are involved more in the decoration, arrangement and cleaning. Another study which stated that “interior spaces are for women and exterior spaces, for men” (Loyd, 1975, p.10) also reveals that while the job of women is to controlling the home, “a man who stays at home is labeled less than a man” (p. 12). 27
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